Love Free or Die

Love Free or Die (2012)

Genres - Documentary  |   Release Date - Aug 24, 2012  |   Run Time - 82 min.  |   Countries - United States of America  |  
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LOVE FREE OR DIE (Special Jury Prize winner Sundance 2012) is about a man whose two defining passions the world cannot reconcile: his love for God and for his partner Mark. It is about church and state, love and marriage, faith and identity-and one man’s struggle to dispel the notion that God’s love has limits.

In the film, Gene Robinson becomes the first openly gay person to be elected bishop in the high church traditions of Christendom. Bishop Robinson’s elevation in the sleepy New Hampshire diocese in 2003 ignited a worldwide firestorm in the Anglican Communion, one that has become so heated that there is still a chance of a schism in the 80 million-member denomination. One year after being muzzled by the Archbishop of Canterbury, he finds himself speaking from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial at Barack Obama’s Inauguration. Gene Robinson confronts those who use religion as an instrument of oppression, and claims a place in the church and society, not just for LGBT people, but for all.

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Anglican Communion, Archbishop Of Canterbury, Barack Obama, Bishop, Episcopal Church, Episcopal Diocese Of New Hampshire, Gay, Lincoln Memorial, London

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Love Free Or Die
Love Free or Die
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